Recently some Brachiopoda, coral, gastropoda, phytolite is identified by Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology China Academy of Sciences.The age belongs to Late Carboniferous epoch.

在该地层中发现了一些腕、珊瑚、、植物化石，经中国科学院南京地质古物研究所鉴定，时属晚石炭世晚期。

Above, the Medusa-like arms of a northern basket star (right) seek a meal of zooplankton beside a polar alcyonarian soft coral in the shallows beneath an ice sheet in the Canadian Arctic.

在加拿大北圈的一层薄冰之下，一种活的低级腔肠动物软珊瑚，被那一组令人恐怖的像蛇发女怪的肢体在北地域寻找软珊瑚做为一顿美餐。